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american workers and defense companies. they have contracts to produce this equipment and american workers are doing that as we speak. if the federal government steps in as my colleague's amendment would mandate, those contracts would have to be immediately broken, and u.s. production lines would have to be shut down immediately. there's a cost to breaching a contract in this country, and there should be. that doesn't change just because the government is the one doing the breaching. this is also as it should be. so the senator's amendment would obligate the federal government to pay the many costs to american businesses and workers for breaking our commitments to them. furthermore, many of these defense articles have already been produced. they have already been paid for. they are technically the property of the egyptian government already. and if the congress prohibits these defense articles from being delivered to egypt, they become the responsibility of the united states government. we'll have to store them somewhere an
american workers and defense companies. they have contracts to produce this equipment and american workers are doing that as we speak. if the federal government steps in as my colleague's amendment would mandate, those contracts would have to be immediately broken, and u.s. production lines would have to be shut down immediately. there's a cost to breaching a contract in this country, and there should be. that doesn't change just because the government is the one doing the breaching. this is...
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and non-defense. and so there are many different ways we can approach this. but i am committed to approaching this. i have said, and i will continue to say, that sequestration was the last resort. we thought we would do better with the supercommittee. we didn't. so this is what we're faced with. and i hope that we can all work together to lessen the burden on defense spending and, of course, non-defense spending. that is what sequestration is all about. i'm committed to do that. i'm happy to work with my friend from oklahoma. if he can't find enough allies, either republicans or democrats, i'll be happy to continue to work with him to figure out a way that we can have this issue brought before the senate. mr. inhofe: and mr. chairman? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: through the chair, i would make a comment that many times the distinguished leader has been helpful in the highway bill and the pilots bill of rights and others. i would have to say i would not have been able
and non-defense. and so there are many different ways we can approach this. but i am committed to approaching this. i have said, and i will continue to say, that sequestration was the last resort. we thought we would do better with the supercommittee. we didn't. so this is what we're faced with. and i hope that we can all work together to lessen the burden on defense spending and, of course, non-defense spending. that is what sequestration is all about. i'm committed to do that. i'm happy to...
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that there is going to be yet another round of defense cuts. this year, about $55 billion will be sequestered in ways that you need to the department. it's not that this is just automatic across-the-board meat cleaver approach. but there was some wiggle room granted to the president and particularly he has chosen personal benefits. so the cuts that have to be made, coming as they will come, about halfway through the budget year will fall disproportionately on the weapons procurement and research , in particular on the maintenance accounts that make trained and ready units for deployment. and because this set of accounts also includes things it means that it will fall on these rapid spending accounts that are most directly associated with making units ready to deploy the combat fields. now, i am sure that the department was intact last week and the chairman said we have a set of managed cuts. we are managing them so that noncritical counts will be protected. well, sometimes there is not much that isn't pretty critical. ammunition and gasoline, f
that there is going to be yet another round of defense cuts. this year, about $55 billion will be sequestered in ways that you need to the department. it's not that this is just automatic across-the-board meat cleaver approach. but there was some wiggle room granted to the president and particularly he has chosen personal benefits. so the cuts that have to be made, coming as they will come, about halfway through the budget year will fall disproportionately on the weapons procurement and...
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so we know something about what kind of defensive perimeter is required. and we can count about that. other things that people don't tend to track on, do you want american soldiers in combat of medical care or not? do you want -- what is the attrition rate the president is going to accept? among wounded soldiers in the wars to which he is a sent them. because if you want soldiers to survive the kind of injuries that they encounter in these operations you need have something called a medical clinic summer into the. if you have one base it must be at that base. a role three medical clinic is 200 people. here's another fun fact that gets lost in the discussion. will do this all with creditors. we'll do this all with the drones and a great thing about drones is that their on demand aerial systems. i quote the tenet general of the united states air force on the subject of what a misnomer it is to call them unmanned aerial system big one thing that is a man is the actual playing. if you want to creditors on the ground -- predators on the ground, guess what, they
so we know something about what kind of defensive perimeter is required. and we can count about that. other things that people don't tend to track on, do you want american soldiers in combat of medical care or not? do you want -- what is the attrition rate the president is going to accept? among wounded soldiers in the wars to which he is a sent them. because if you want soldiers to survive the kind of injuries that they encounter in these operations you need have something called a medical...
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but they were angry at him, and they were angry at him for throwing them on the defensive for seeming feckless in the management of and prosecution of the war. and i think that these were, you know, this was sort of, you know, concomitant casualties and that as a result the republican party getting thrown on its heels on immigration, you know, in many 2006 i published -- in 2006 i published a book on hillary clinton called -- >> john, we're going to come back. >> no, let me finish this point, because it's interesting. the morning i did, i had 150 radio interviews scheduled, the book was being sent off in a big way. first book about hillary clinton in 2008, and i did eight interviews the first day, and every single one of those interviews i came on on a conservative radio station somewhere in the country, and i said, yes, i'm here to talk about my book, "can she be stopped," and the conservative radio talk show host would say -- this is april 2006 -- i don't want to talk about that, i want to talk about immigration and what bush is doing. what's going on? this was supposed to be a frie
but they were angry at him, and they were angry at him for throwing them on the defensive for seeming feckless in the management of and prosecution of the war. and i think that these were, you know, this was sort of, you know, concomitant casualties and that as a result the republican party getting thrown on its heels on immigration, you know, in many 2006 i published -- in 2006 i published a book on hillary clinton called -- >> john, we're going to come back. >> no, let me finish...
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. >> last december we did the defense authorization bill. we dispensed with 380 amendments and we went forward and we did the right thing. i am, guardedly optimistic we will do, we -- >> we did that bill and postal reform toward the end of last year. it was little-noticed but there were a number of important and complicated pieces of legislation, that didn't pass the house, most of them. the defense did, that got through the senate with good bipartisan support. >> senator mccain do you buy the pendulum idea that it reached its nadir, right at the bottom and reached its worst point and is getting better? >> i do. i do. maybe i'm wrong. maybe that's not the case. but i think as chuck just mentioned we've sown we can make certain progress in other areas and i think historians who study the senate, as boring as this might be, will look back on this aversion of this nuclear option because, if it had happened and it was going to happen unless we had come up with this road map for the leaders, maybe that is sound a little egotistical, but it's true
. >> last december we did the defense authorization bill. we dispensed with 380 amendments and we went forward and we did the right thing. i am, guardedly optimistic we will do, we -- >> we did that bill and postal reform toward the end of last year. it was little-noticed but there were a number of important and complicated pieces of legislation, that didn't pass the house, most of them. the defense did, that got through the senate with good bipartisan support. >> senator...